Posted on 03/12/2003 6:29:10 PM PST by SavageRepublican
Editor, the Tribune: So the University of Missouri has a "peace studies" program, which uses university resources to encourage students to protest against their country and even to skip their taxpayer-funded classes to do it.
Is this the same university that constantly whines that the people of Missouri are too miserly in their support for "higher" education? One wonders how many other asinine programs, departments and classes we are funding. Evidently, MU has no respect or appreciation for the sacrifices made by hard-working Missourians on its behalf.
But it does explain the large number of anti-American letters to the Tribune and the substantial local support for these demonstrations - demonstrations whose sponsors are, here and abroad, well-known communist groups such as the Workers World Party. Confronted with this fact, protesters typically claim they are simply part of a "broad coalition against the war."
At best, they are unwitting dupes of the America-haters, simply "useful idiots." At worst, they are willing abettors to terror. They march with those who wish disaster on our soldiers. They claim to care about the Iraqi people, but they don’t protest Saddam Hussein, who oppresses those people. No, they choose to march with communists, the most murderous ideologues the world has ever known.
It might be possible to take a principled stand against a war with Iraq. However, those who march in solidarity with radical anti-American leftists lose all claim to legitimacy. The university should not be in the business of promoting such vermin.
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Timmy (Columbia, MO)
I'm suprised it got published.
Remember children, Iraqi dissenters don't get press coverage, they get covered with dirt!
The folks in England were great. Real friends. We had lots of fun bashing the French. The ones in France seem to be wishfully thinking that relations between France and the US would go back to normal after the war. I told them I didn't think so. Thanks for posting this, Kassie.
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